Quarton Elementary

Quarton Elementary, a medium-sized elementary-level community in BIRMINGHAM, Michigan, one of the schools within Birmingham Public Schools, educates 371 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Quarton Elementary is one of 13 schools operated by Birmingham Public Schools, a district that instructs 7,217 students overall.

Demographically, Quarton Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). The remainder reads as 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

On the resource side, On paper, Quarton Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. The state averages about 15.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 2% of students at Quarton Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Oakland County's rate of about 32%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Quarton Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.2%; this one delivers 66.6%.

In the area at large, Oakland County reports that median household income runs about $97,760, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Oakland County's 345 public schools (combined enrollment of about 169,926 students), Quarton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Birmingham Covington School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Quarton Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 69.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Quarton Elementary has ticked down 8%, going from 403 students in 2018 to 371 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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